Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear talking with women that many men find it difficult to offer comfort . |
| 2 | Taylor , 31 , of 1 Sqn A Flight , RAF Laarbruch , Germany , admitted carelessly driving on September 26 , last year , and colliding with a lorry driven by Alex Baillie of Golf Drive , Port Seton , East Lothian . |
| 3 | With Byas and White wasting no scoring opportunities , Yorkshire required 41 off five overs and their task became less demanding as Byas clubbed Hayhurst for four and six , the big hit just brushing Caddick 's fingers before clearing the rope . |
| 4 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 5 | These schemes and the benefits they provide , in general , are organised hierarchically according to employment status and occupational class ( James , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | As well as defending her Redcar seat , Dr Mowlam is Labour spokesperson on city and corporate affairs necessitating much shuttling between Cleveland and London . |
| 7 | I am sure that they did not consider just talking to London Transport about that . |
| 8 | He used to come home smelling of iron-filings , and would sit down , unwashed , to a monstrous pile of chopped heart . |
| 9 | San Diego , California-based Metrosoft claims to be developing the first commercial multitrack MIDI audio software for NeXT workstations : MetroTracks can accommodate up to 32 virtual tracks , eight of which can be mixed simultaneously depending on hardware configuration , is compatible with most third party audio products supported by NeXT , cost starts from $600 and ships in September . |
| 10 | These have proved to be such a success that there is now a virtual two month long waiting list at Tyseley with booking now stretching into April next year . |
| 11 | The fact that precious substances have been sucked with so much gusto into the stream of mass consumption admittedly has small bearing on jewellery as an art . |
| 12 | I 've no wish to stand here talking in riddles . ’ |
| 13 | The first option involved simply eliminating through traffic , principally through the use of one-way systems . |
| 14 | As it was I just sat there fuming with frustration , gabbled one senseless sentence and went swiftly to where charity is supposed to begin , muttering ‘ Never again' all the way , but omitting to add ‘ till the next time ’ . |
| 15 | And the finger 's stood there and she 's had to stand there shaking from head to foot |
| 16 | At night she lies there blinking with neglect . |
| 17 | This observation has direct bearing on questions of authenticity , since a detail may be the way that the true can be separated from the false . |
| 18 | The use of such a file will eliminate extra searching for synonyms and may save a fair bit of time . |
| 19 | On both issues , he suggested , reality had long outstripped British rhetoric and Whitehall would do better bargaining on details than cold-shouldering the whole process . |
| 20 | At 4 pm the following afternoon he awoke and came downstairs asking for breakfast ! |
| 21 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 22 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 23 | Gary Freeman , for instance , the scorer of the tries which knocked Britain out of the World Cup last year , was yesterday to be seen vainly flapping after Roy Haggerty , prior to Neil Holding 's all-important drop goal . |
| 24 | A keen cricketer , until last year Mr. Collar could be seen regularly umpiring for Medstead . |
| 25 | The celebrities , captured for posterity by the world 's leading photographer , all seemed singularly lacking in clothes . |
| 26 | Oxford 's Paul Simpson must also be in contention for a place , while his team-mate Andrew Melville , seen here scoring against Swindon , already has international experience with Wales . |
| 27 | All 3,700 US forces currently remaining in Kuwait had been due to leave in September , and the US announcement thus revived reports of the Kuwaiti government 's continuing interest in securing a Western military presence in the country [ see p. 38407 ] . |
| 28 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 29 | Soon , for instance , he is seen cheekily jostling for prominence among refugees arriving at Southampton . |
| 30 | The 1.6 per cent increase in CO2 is set against an increase of only 1 per cent in gross domestic product over the year , indicating that the economy became more polluting per unit of wealth created . |